Why Google is back in court for another monopoly showdown
by Nilay Patel from The Verge - All Posts on (#6QVP0)
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Today on Decoder, we're talking about the big Google antitrust trial that's currently taking place in a federal courthouse. No, not the one you're thinking of - it's the second Google antitrust case in just as many months. The company lost a landmark case in August in which a court ruled that it had an illegal monopoly in search.
This time around, the Department of Justice is claiming Google has another illegal monopoly in the online advertising market.
Unlike the search case, the ads case is both extremely complicated and somewhat harder to see. We all use search all day, and we're surrounded by online ads all day, but while it's easy to talk about search, no one really wants to think about how the ads get there or how much they really...